Node-Red – A visual tool for wiring the Internet of Things

As we continue to puzzle out all the different approaches to create an IoT application something that caught our eye was Node-Red. It’s billed as a visual tool for wiring the Internet of Things. The home page says this:

Node-RED is a tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways.

The intro video shows a pretty snazzy GUI for wiring elements together:

This article shows how to tie your hardware into the Node-Red mix.

Now the question is what is the best way to run a node.js server?

Node-Red Homepage